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  1. noun A loop of leather, cloth, or synthetic material that is sewn at the side or the top rear of a boot to help in pulling the boot on.
  2. noun An instance of starting of a computer; a boot.
  3. transitive verb To promote and develop by use of one's own initiative and work without reliance on outside help: "We've bootstrapped our way back with aggressive tourism and recruiting high tech industries” (John Corrigan).
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  • Companies "forged in hell" have a much more durable and advantaged DNA coming out.Power of an Equity CultureIn these times, firms either bootstrap or fund themselves from modest equity rounds.
  • Good Will Hunting (which many people mistook for a bootstrap Horatio Alger myth). —  New York Press
  • You will typically need at least one of the base images (bootstrap-image, opie-image or gpe-image), and if and only if you're building for an —  Openembedded - Recent changes [en]
  • Having federal backing can help bootstrap organizations, non-profits and businesses who don't have access to usability methods and expertise. —  Demystifying Usability
  • This study sought to develop bootstrap-based tests that allow for the following to be ascertained: (a) the optimal number q < / = p of predictors; and (b) the model or models including q predictors, which display the largest AUC (area under the ROC curve). —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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